Top adviser: Biden believes U.S. can evacuate all Americans by end of August

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

President Biden's national security adviser, Jake Sullivan, said the president believes U.S. forces will be able to get all Americans who want to leave Afghanistan out of the country by Mr. Biden's self-imposed deadline of August 31. However, Sullivan said the U.S. does not know exactly how many Americans are in the country.

"The president is committed to ensuring that every American who wants to leave Afghanistan gets out of Afghanistan. He believes that we can accomplish that by August 31," Sullivan told "CBS Evening News" anchor and managing editor Norah O'Donnell on Thursday.

Sullivan said the U.S. has the capacity to fly thousands of people from the Kabul airport to other countries each day. It's the responsibility of those fleeing to get to the airport themselves.

"We have plenty more seats on flights than we believe that there are possibly Americans still in Afghanistan, and there is plenty of time to get to the airport. So, yes, we believe that over the course of the coming days, it is completely feasible for us," he said.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/top-adviser-biden-believes-us-can-evacuate-all-americans-by-end-of-august/ar-AANw68f

[Fiendish Thingy]

1. What about our Afghan interpreters and other allies and at risk folks? Nt

[SoCalDavidS]

2. Who?

Seems like many of them will be forgotten.

[LanternWaste]

3. I don't think it would be safe for those same allies if the administration...

began discussing and advertising its operational plans for that loudly and proudly.

[Hoyt]

4. " It's the responsibility of those fleeing to get to the airport themselves."

[ansible]

5. Meanwhile british soldiers are going out to Kabul to rescue their people

https://www.militarytimes.com/flashpoints/afghanistan/2021/08/19/as-us-military-sticks-to-airport-british-and-french-forces-are-rescuing-their-citizens-in-kabul-reports/

[Haggard Celine]

6. If they can fly out thousands a day and

they have plenty more seats on those planes, they could probably get them all out, including a good many Afghans.

[FloridaBlues]

7. If there really is over 50 thousand Afghan interpreters will be difficult

To know where everyone is located. There might be some who are left behind not intentionally but could be a continuous outrage that not everyone is taken out once troops are out. Don’t envy this mission for the troops.